Question

write a brief account of cotton production in India​

Answer 1

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Cotton is a kharif crop which requires 6 to 8 months to mature. ... In Tamil Nadu, it is grown both as a kharif and as a rabi crop. Here the rainfall occurs after September and cotton is sown in October. The irrigated crop is sown in January-February.

Answer 2

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Cotton is the most important fibre crop not only of India but of the entire world. It provides the basic raw material (cotton fibre) to cotton textile industry.

Cotton is the crop of tropical and sub-tropical areas and requires uniformly high temperature varying between 21°C and 30°C.

Three broad types of cotton are generally recognised on the basis of the length, strength and structure of its fibre.

India has the largest area under cotton cultivation in the world though she is the world’s third largest producer of cotton after China and the USA. Currently it is grown over 6 per cent of the net sown area. It is clear that there has been practically no increase in area under cotton except in the decade between 1950-51 and 1960-61 when it increased from 5.8 million hectares in 1950-51 to 7.6 million hectares in 1960-61. Some increase in area under cotton cultivation was recorded in 1990s and it reached the maximum of 9.3 million hectares in 1998-99.

In India, cotton is grown in three distinct agro-ecological zones, viz., Northern (Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan), Central (Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh) and Southern zone (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka).

Maharashtra is the largest producer and produces 29.78 per cent of the total cotton production of India. Maharashtra is a traditional producer of cotton. The lava soil of deccan plateau is world renowned for cotton production and is popularly known as the black cotton soil. Over 80 per cent of the production comes from Khandesh, Vidarbha and Marathwada regions comprising the districts of Yavatmal, Nanded, Amravati, Parbhani, Wardha, Jalgaon, Akola, Buldhana, Nagpur, Dhule, etc.

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